The US Department of Homeland Security is pursuing a sprawling campaign against online ‘disinformation’ through close partnerships with social media companies, raising concerns about encroachments on free speech, according to a new report

Those hot-button topics include ‘the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, US withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of US support to Ukraine,’ according to a draft copy of DHS’s Quadrennial Homeland Security Review cited in the report.

Simon Deakin, a professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, said if 100 or more employees are sacked within a period of 90 days, the Business Secretary must be notified 45 days before the first dismissal.

‘I hope that you will agree with me that the Government must make it clear to Twitter’s new owners a digital P&O would not be acceptable and that no-one is above the law in the UK, including big tech barons.’

Chipmaker Intel Corp on Thursday cut its full-year profit and revenue forecast and warned it would lay off staff, but a stronger-than-expected performance at its personal computers segment helped send shares higher.

‘Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, Gadgetinku.com unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day,’ he said. ‘Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required.’

Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said the cut to the fourth quarter outlook reflected economic uncertainty expected to last into next year, and that the company was taking time to ramp up sales into data centers, which dropped 27% in the third quarter.

Still, the dangers of such crackdowns were illustrated in the closing days of the 2020 election, when Twitter and Facebook limited or banned sharing of the New York Post’s reports on Hunter Biden’s international business dealings.

On Friday morning, he tweeted angrily: ‘Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. 

After he had landed ministerial roles (first as local government minister in 2018) it became something of a stick to beat him with, with The Guardian’s fashion pages once devoting a page to his so-called ‘hedge fund haute couture’.

He was discussing his vision for Twitter and other companies when fellow billionaire Ron Baron joked how he would live forever, with Musk quipping: ‘If I keep increasing that enemies list it might not be much longer.’

«The amount that we can do with respect to people costs is a minority of our overall cost structure. So driving efficiency in the factory network is way more important to our economics than people cost,» Gelsinger told Reuters, adding that adjustments to flexible workforces can be «quite immediate».

A lifelong fan of Southampton FC, who idolised their star player Matt Le Tissier (who is himself now a high-profile Brexiteer), Rishi appears to have first flirted with Euroscepticism as a teenager, writing in the school magazine, The Wykehamist, about ‘New Labour rhetoric’ that sounded ‘worryingly pro-European’.

The remarkable journey that has taken Rishi Sunak to Downing Street began not at Southampton General Hospital, where he was born just over 42 years ago, but at a busy roundabout on the A35 roughly half a mile away

Mr Clancy described the situation as the ‘digital P&O’ — in reference to the shipping company, which was widely condemned after it sacked nearly 800 crew members without notice in March and replaced them with cheaper agency workers.

The company now expects 2022 annual revenue of about $63 billion to $64 billion, compared with $65 billion to $68 billion estimated earlier.

Its original forecast was for about $76 billion. Analysts on average expected annual revenue of $65.26 billion, according to Refinitiv data.

The remarkable journey that has taken Rishi Sunak to Downing Street began not at Southampton General Hospital, where he was born just over 42 years ago, but at a busy roundabout on the A35 roughly half a mile away.

In fact, we are the first major Gadgetinku.Com European country to be led by a non-white politician. And one of the few Western democracies where a Hindu, who takes his parliamentary oath on the sacred Sanskrit text, the Bhagavad Gita, could harbour the slightest hope of being able to run a Government.

‘There is growing evidence that the legislative and executive branch officials are using social media companies to engage in censorship by surrogate,’ Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University, told The Intercept. 

Intel trimmed its full-year adjusted earnings per share forecast to $1.95 from $2.30. (Reporting by Chavi Mehta in Bengaluru and Jane Lanhee Lee; Editing by Devika Syamnath, David Gregorio and Deepa Babington)

While many staff appear to have already learned they no longer have a job when they woke up to find their computers had been wiped, workers received an email from Twitter’s HR department on Saturday which said they had until 9am on Tuesday to nominate any current employee.

A2 - Guest Registration - Laser ImpressionsLouisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (left) and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (right) filed a suit last month accusing the Biden administration of working with social media companies to censor disfavored viewpoints.